Axy receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to build a new AI platform for scientific collaboration
25.11.2025
The ICT startup Axy has obtained CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to develop an AI-powered platform that helps researchers get more out of scientific conferences, turning large academic meetings into more connected, accessible, and productive spaces for discovery.
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Scientific conferences are designed to facilitate collaboration, but researchers often struggle with information overload and limited opportunities to connect. Important abstracts get buried in thousand-page booklets, key collaborators remain undiscovered, and much of the value created during a conference fades once the event ends. Beyond conferences, scientists also lack tools to effectively collaborate on research projects and manage their weekly lab meetings and journal clubs.
The ICT startup Axy develops an AI-driven platform that transforms how scientists collaborate. Starting with conferences, Axy helps researchers discover relevant work, build personalized agendas, and connect with collaborators who share their interests. The platform extends beyond conferences with a Journal Club app for weekly scientific gatherings. And they’re building what the team calls “GitHub for Science”—a community-driven knowledge graph that helps researchers map scientific knowledge, identify gaps, and collaborate on long-term projects. With an intuitive interface and recommendation systems that learn user preferences, Axy makes research discovery more efficient and scientific collaboration more sustainable.
Axy addresses two large markets: the $1B+ conference management sector and the $8B research collaboration and lab management market, serving over 30 million scientists worldwide. Axy has already supported conferences with more than 1,000 participants and recorded adoption rates up to 80%, receiving strong feedback from the scientific community. With a validated pricing model and partnerships with major scientific societies, Axy is expanding from conferences into daily scientific workflows through journal clubs and collaborative research platforms.
The CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick will accelerate Axy's expansion beyond conferences. The funding will support the growth of an international sales team, development of AI features for the Journal Club platform to reach over 1M weekly users, and the initial build-out of the “GitHub for Science” knowledge graph in partnership with leading researchers. This includes hiring key technical talent and launching marketing campaigns to establish Axy as a comprehensive collaboration ecosystem for scientists worldwide.
The founding team brings together expertise in machine learning, software development, and business strategy. Nisheet Patel (CEO), Malav Patel (CFO), and Aarsh Patel (CTO) combine backgrounds in scientific research and machine learning with hands-on experience building scalable digital platforms. Their complementary skills equip the startup to deliver a new generation of conference and collaboration tools to the scientific community.
“Venture Kick has been instrumental in Axy's journey—from a PhD lab project to a thriving startup. The structured three-stage process pushed us to validate our business model, secure our first paying customers, and scale from one conference per month to one per day," highlighted Axy's CEO Nisheet Patel. "Beyond the funding, the feedback from expert juries helped us refine our vision from a conference app into a complete scientific collaboration ecosystem. We’re grateful for the confidence Venture Kick has shown in our mission to democratize scientific knowledge globally.”
Axy Axy CEO Nisheet Patel
The ICT startup Axy develops an AI-driven platform that transforms how scientists collaborate. Starting with conferences, Axy helps researchers discover relevant work, build personalized agendas, and connect with collaborators who share their interests. The platform extends beyond conferences with a Journal Club app for weekly scientific gatherings. And they’re building what the team calls “GitHub for Science”—a community-driven knowledge graph that helps researchers map scientific knowledge, identify gaps, and collaborate on long-term projects. With an intuitive interface and recommendation systems that learn user preferences, Axy makes research discovery more efficient and scientific collaboration more sustainable.
Axy addresses two large markets: the $1B+ conference management sector and the $8B research collaboration and lab management market, serving over 30 million scientists worldwide. Axy has already supported conferences with more than 1,000 participants and recorded adoption rates up to 80%, receiving strong feedback from the scientific community. With a validated pricing model and partnerships with major scientific societies, Axy is expanding from conferences into daily scientific workflows through journal clubs and collaborative research platforms.
The CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick will accelerate Axy's expansion beyond conferences. The funding will support the growth of an international sales team, development of AI features for the Journal Club platform to reach over 1M weekly users, and the initial build-out of the “GitHub for Science” knowledge graph in partnership with leading researchers. This includes hiring key technical talent and launching marketing campaigns to establish Axy as a comprehensive collaboration ecosystem for scientists worldwide.
The founding team brings together expertise in machine learning, software development, and business strategy. Nisheet Patel (CEO), Malav Patel (CFO), and Aarsh Patel (CTO) combine backgrounds in scientific research and machine learning with hands-on experience building scalable digital platforms. Their complementary skills equip the startup to deliver a new generation of conference and collaboration tools to the scientific community.
“Venture Kick has been instrumental in Axy's journey—from a PhD lab project to a thriving startup. The structured three-stage process pushed us to validate our business model, secure our first paying customers, and scale from one conference per month to one per day," highlighted Axy's CEO Nisheet Patel. "Beyond the funding, the feedback from expert juries helped us refine our vision from a conference app into a complete scientific collaboration ecosystem. We’re grateful for the confidence Venture Kick has shown in our mission to democratize scientific knowledge globally.”
Axy Axy CEO Nisheet Patel